Though she did not name a story in particular, Palin seemed to be referencing a new Vanity Fair story on her that relies heavily on anonymous stories and contains several unflattering anecdotes about her temper.

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“I hear there is some pretty ugly stuff right now,” Palin said of her recent coverage in an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show.

“Those who are impotent and limp and gutless and they go on their anonymous — sources that are anonymous — and impotent, limp and gutless reporters take anonymous sources and cite them as being factual references,” Palin said. “It just slays me because it is just absolutely clear what the state of yellow journalism is today that they would take these anonymous sources as fact.”

“When a story is filled with those, we know it’s bogus,” she added.

Palin also alleged that there is a “pattern” of negative news coverage following any instance in which “we have some victories under the belt” and “things are going well.”

“We always expect what’s coming,” she insisted.

Vanity Fair reporter Michael Joseph Gross defended criticism of the story Thursday during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”